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My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.
Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
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Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.
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Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.
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I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.
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